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scarlet or yellow, when dry changing colour, hoary, slightly 

 fleshy, acutely conical or campanulate and obtuse, when 

 moist pellucidly striate, when dry silky ; fragile ; stem fistu- 

 lose, thin, somewhat attenuated and white at base, otherwise 

 yellow, even, smooth, flexuose; gills ascending, distant, 

 broad and adnate behind, somewhat decurrent, yellow. 

 In grass field. King^s Lynn. 



** Gills aduexecl, somewhat sepaircting. 



49. H. punieeus, Fr. (p. 101) ; 2-4 in. 



50. H. obrusseus, Fr. (p. 201) ; 2-3 in. 



51. H. intermedius, Pass.; pileus thin, campanulate, 

 obtuse, then flattened, rather dry, fibrillosely silky, golden 

 yellow, becoming cinereous; stem fistulose, fibrillosely 

 striate ; gills aduate, veutricose, distant, whitish, then 

 yellowish. 



On damp ground. 



52. H. conieus, Fr. (p. 201) ; 2 in. Epping Forest. 



53. H. calyptrseformis, B. and Br. (p. 202); 2 in. Epping 

 Forest. 



Var. niveus ; wholly white. 

 Pastures and lawns. 



54. H. chlorophanus, Fr. ; pileus 1 in., sulphur-yellow 

 or scarlet, not changing colour, somewhat membranaceous, 

 fragile, convex, plane, obtuse, orbicular and lobed, then 

 cracked, viscid, striate ; stem hollow, equal, round, even, 

 viscid when moist, shining when dry, unicolorous, light 

 yellow ; gills emarginato-adnexed, ventricose, with a thin 

 decurrent tooth, thin, distant, distinct. 



In grassy and mossy places. Common. Epping Forest. 

 Never becoming black. 



55. H. psittacinus, Fr. (p. 202) ; 1 in. Epping Forest. 



